We created space to reclaim time … and that time made extra(ordinary) space

Within the concept of extra-space, this article aims to explore the meaning, relevance and consequences of the project HODO and the installation ‘The Resting Assembly’ as part of the official Portuguese student representation at the Prague Quadrennial 2023. In close relation to the cultural context of the project, the underlying ideas of time, space, and place are used to develop the methodological approaches, aims, intentions and decisions that guided the project. Based on these relationships, the article proposes to understand this project under the category of event which guides a way of thinking about scenographic contexts toward their amplification in contemporary practices, while furthering the theoretical dimension of the project. The article intends to describe how the idea that a specific (manifest expression of) time, its suspension or the act of pausing, is initiated by this project/object/performance as a form of agency and aesthetic reflection, contributing to an interrelation between time and space. In this sense, the project is studied as a space–time entity that can open up new possibilities in the Portuguese context of artistic creation and research in the field of scenography.